The Number 23 Quotes

The Number 23 is a television program that appeared on TV in 1970 . The Number 23 ended its run in 1970.

It features Beau Flynn; Tripp Vinson as producer, Harry Gregson-Williams in charge of musical score, and Matthew Libatique as head of cinematography.

The Number 23 is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Number 23 is 98 minutes long. The Number 23 is distributed by New Line Cinema.

The cast includes: Jim Carrey as Walter Sparrow, Danny Huston as Isaac French, Virginia Madsen as Agatha Sparrow, Logan Lerman as Robin Sparrow, Lynn Collins as Suicide Blonde, Jim Carrey as Fingerling, Mark Pellegrino as Kyle Flinch, and Michelle Arthur as Sybil.

The Number 23 Quotes

Mark Pellegrino as Kyle Flinch

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Jim Carrey as Walter Sparrow

• (Jim Carrey) "It's so absurd, even the color of his tie betrays him."

• (Jim Carrey) "Why that street? Why that hotel?"

• (Jim Carrey) "To die there in the street would have been easy. But it wouldn't have been justice, at least not the justice fathers teach their sons about. I'll be sentenced in a week or so. My lawyer says the judge will look kindly upon me for turning myself in. Maybe it's not the happiest of endings, but it's the right one. Some day I'll be up for parole, and we can go on living our lives. It's only a matter of time. Of course, time is just a counting system; numbers with meaning attached to them; isn't it?"

• (Jim Carrey) "A week ago, the only thing I thought was out of the ordinary was that it was my birthday."

• (Jim Carrey) "Once upon a time there was a dog. Lived a life of terror, feared no one. Although his teeth were sharp, and his belly full, his heart was empty. He decided to go on a journey to a land far far away. But he came upon a wooden shack one day with a thin old man inside, and he invited him in. The dog was overjoyed, and that night warm smoke billowed from the chimney above. Oh, what odd smelling smoke this was. You see, the land was China, and in China they eat dogs."

• (Jim Carrey) "I once read that the only philosophical question that matters, is whether or not to commit suicide -- I guess that makes me a philosopher."

• (Jim Carrey) "I could have died there on the street, but that wouldn't have been justice. At least not the justice fathers teach their sons."

• (Jim Carrey) "Of course time is just a counting system -- numbers with meanings attached to them."

• (Jim Carrey) "Hey, she's a nice girl. Make sure she stays that way."

• (Jim Carrey) "You're Topsy Kretts --"
• (Virginia Madsen) "He may not even be a man."
• (Virginia Madsen) "Please don't make me do this --"
• (Jim Carrey) "Do what, Ag? Why'd you do this?"
• (Jim Carrey) "Who am I LIVING WITH?"
• (Jim Carrey) "What's this for, Ag? What are you going to do with this?"
• (Virginia Madsen) "I -- I took it to protect us. From -- whoever we were going to meet at the mailbox facility."
• (Jim Carrey) "Intending to kill that poor old man who you got to publish your book? To protect your little secret?"
• (Virginia Madsen) "I'll take care of it."
• (Jim Carrey) "He was ALIVE before you sent us away."
• (Virginia Madsen) "Robin will hear you."
• (Jim Carrey) "Oh, we wouldn't want that, would we? We wouldn't want our son to know the horrible truth about his mother."
• (Logan Lerman) "Mom? Dad? What's going on?"
• (Jim Carrey) "She's Topsy Kretts; she wrote the book."
• (Virginia Madsen) "No, it's not true. Now your father's going to put down the knife. Aren't you, Walter?"
• (Jim Carrey) "Tell him the truth."
• (Virginia Madsen) "Walter --"
• (Jim Carrey) "Tell him -- how you took the skeleton."
• (Virginia Madsen) "Yes, Isaac and I took the skeleton --"
• (Logan Lerman) "You did?"
• (Virginia Madsen) "And I'd do it again. But I did not write the book."
• (Jim Carrey) "Don't lie. 13 years. 13 years of lies. NO MORE."
• (Virginia Madsen) "Don't do this to us, Walter."
• (Logan Lerman) "Mom, who wrote the book?"
• (Jim Carrey) "Tell him who wrote it."
• (Jim Carrey) "Tell him."
• (Virginia Madsen) "-- You wrote the book, Walter."

• (Jim Carrey) "I'd like two words on my tombstone: what if."

• (Jim Carrey) "Chapter 23. You can call me Fingerling. My real name is Walter. Walter Paul Sparrow. What you've read so far is not the whole truth. Much has been changed to protect the innocent -- and the guilty. I once read that the only philosophical question that matters is whether or not to commit suicide. I guess that makes me a philosopher. You can say it was my inheritance. After my mother's death, my father couldn't cope. He didn't leave a note -- just a number. That number followed me from foster home to foster home till college when I met her: Laura Tollins. I thought she'd help me forget my father's number. It was a mistake to think I could escape it. I loved her. And I thought she loved me. Until my father's number returned to haunt me. That f***ing number -- When I circled every 23rd letter of her note -- it became clear. The number had gone after me. And now it wanted her. I was right. She was in danger. I just didn't realize the danger was me. What began as a suicide note, turned into something more. Much, much more."

• (Jim Carrey) "She had a face that was meant to smile."

• (Jim Carrey) "There's no such thing as destiny. There are only different choices. Some choices are easy, some aren't. Those are the really important ones, the ones that define us as people."

Lynn Collins as Suicide Blonde

• (Lynn Collins) "Twenty-f***ing-three."

Virginia Madsen as Agatha Sparrow

• (Virginia Madsen) "You would never hurt anyone."
• (Jim Carrey) "How do you know?"

Logan Lerman as Robin Sparrow

• (Logan Lerman) "Skeletons can't just get up and walk away. You were right. That man wasn't the killer, the real killer is still out there and he knows dads onto him."

Michelle Arthur as Sybil

• (Michelle Arthur) "Oh, come on. Why don't you wag your tail at me in the bitches' room."
• (Jim Carrey) "Sybil. Sybil, I wouldn't wag my tail in the bathroom with you if you were the last bitch on earth."

Danny Huston as Isaac French

• (Danny Huston) "People only pray because they think God will help them if they do."

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